Reviews of crime novels
With a warlike tinge, the author of this novel presents us with a singular story, close to the author's own noir genre, and reissued by different labels since it was first published in 1997. The plot in question revolves around the flight of two English pilots in ...
Retaking the paths of perdition is the easiest task you can undertake. The easy descent through the supposedly parked vices becomes a slope to the open grave, where you can slide, given over to the cause of self-destruction. At the bottom of this novel it sounds ...
What bad starts, bad finishes. Domestic thrillers often delve into this sensation. Jacobo's family reunites by circumstantial imperative. Probably no one in this family would want to live under the same roof, years after the family structure was demolished due to lack of love and ...
I must admit that I was not a follower of the series: I know who you are. However, it was my understanding that this reading could be independent of the series. And I think they are right. The presentation of characters is complete, without implications that can mislead readers new to the story. ...
Detectives, policemen, inspectors and other protagonists of crime novels often suffer from a kind of Stockholm syndrome with their trade. The more evil the cases appear, the darker the human soul is guessed, the more attracted these characters feel with whom we enjoy so much in the ...
That kind of macabre epithet that serves as the title of this book already gives you a chill before you sit down to read. Beneath the unusual cold that plagues Edinburgh in the winter in which the plot takes place, we find sordid aspects of a true crime novel. Because John Rebus, the ...
We are experiencing a great inexhaustible boom in the crime novel. Perhaps the boom started with Stieg Larsson, but the point is that now all the countries of Europe, whether from the north or the south, are presenting their reference authors. In Italy we have, for example, the veteran Andrea Camilleri, ...
One of the resources par excellence in the crime novel is the anticipation of the murder. The murderer is anxious to complete his great work but, somehow, he needs to warn someone about what is going to happen. I don't know what the psychiatrists will have to say about this. If really ...
Camille Thibaut. Policewoman. The paradigm of the current detective novel. It will be because of that of the sixth sense of women, or because of their greater capacity for analysis and study of evidence ... Whatever it is, welcome is the change of scenery that literature has already been ventilating ...
There are few of us who long for the return of Lisbeth Salander in the fifth installment of the Millennium series. Stieg Larsson's heritage is prolific in new books, thanks to the fascinating universe that the ill-fated author imagined, and that captivated so many readers when he had already ...
The classic crime novel assumes evil as a necessary scenario in its development, as a part of society to reflect in order to achieve its end, to show the vileness of the world in its most drastic form, homicide. Few authors consider the underlying moral dilemma in almost every novel ...
It never hurts to find a crime novel that is capable of offering a point of humor, no matter how contradictory it sounds. It is not an easy task for the author to summarize these two aspects so apparently distant in theme and development. Sophie Henaff dared and succeeded with the first ...